Balzac (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Graham Robb
- First Published: 1994
- Type of Work: Literary biography
- Time of Work: 1799-1850
- Setting: France, Switzerland, and Russia
- Principal Characters: Honoré de Balzac, Bernard-François de Balzac, Anne-Charlotte-Laure Sallambier de Balzac, Hyacinthe de Latouche, Laure de Berny, Countess Eveline Hanska
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: History, France or French people, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Authors or writers, Literature, Writing, Novelists, Hallucinations or illusions, Russia or Russian people, Debtors or creditors
- Locales: France, Russia, Switzerland
Honoré de Balzac, one of the great European writers and founder of the modern novel, is the embodiment of nineteenth century France. His monumental work La Comédie humaine (1829-1848; The Human Comedy, 1885-1893), comprising more than one hundred novels, short stories, and studies, along with several unfinished works, chronicles the transition from a feudal society to an industrialized economy. The prolific creator of more than two thousand characters, linked by family relations or coincidence, Balzac offers a scientific and unified vision of society and the human...
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